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Anil Shewakrmani

@anilshewakrmani

I build enterprise partnerships and growth across AI, digital assets, Web3, blockchain, and SaaS.

United Kingdom
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At DCL Markets, I help promising Web3 projects and founders navigate crypto capital markets, strategic partnerships, market making, exchange listings, treasury management, and OTC services.

Previously at GSR, I owned enterprise and institutional client relationships across a global crypto-native client base. I helped grow the firm from fewer than 10 employees to more than 300, driving retention and expansion that delivered 32–86% of annual revenue through renewals, account growth, and bespoke solutions.

At IBM, I led sales and services for Watson Price Optimisation across EMEA, using cloud-based predictive AI and machine learning models to help clients make better pricing decisions. I also led complex implementations for retailers across Europe and Latin America, delivering projects on time and on budget while improving planning, sell-through, gross margin, price perception, and in-stock rates.

Across consulting, pre-sales, account management, and partnership leadership, I translate technical use cases into scalable commercial engagements, build C-level relationships, and lead cross-functional teams through complex enterprise deal cycles.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

DCL Markets logoDM
Current

Head of Partnerships and Business Development

Feb 2025 - Present (1 year 6 months)

Crypto markets can be complicated. At DCLM we try simplify them as much as possible for our client partners. We work with a small number of the most promising web3 projects and founders to help navigate a range of capital markets-related issues:

- Introductions to Venture Capitalists.
- Market Making on Centralised Exchanges (CEXs) and Decentralised Exchange (DEXs).
- Exchange Listings.
- Treasu

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Director Business Development & Account Management

Mar 2018 - Dec 2023 (5 years 9 months)

Since 2013, GSR has been crypto's capital markets partner — providing liquidity, market-making and OTC solutions to token issuers, exchanges, financial institutions and asset managers worldwide.

-Helping develop and implement global sales strategy.
-Owned enterprise and institutional account management: the post-sale relationships across a global, crypto-native client base, grounded in digital-as

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Practice Leader (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Watson Commerce

Apr 2017 - Mar 2018 (11 months)

-I led Sales and Services in EMEA for IBM Watson Price optimisation. Using cloud based predictive AI models (machine learning) we helped clients make better pricing decisions.
-Lead organisational, management and strategic approach for the region.
-Fostering relationships with C-levels and senior executives, communicating project benefits, vision, and success.
-Lead teams (sales, consulting, sta

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Senior Consultant for Watson Commerce

Apr 2014 - Apr 2017 (3 years)

Lead implementations at leading retailers across Europe and Latin America. All projects delivered on time and on budget with significant financial uplift for the client.
Implemented Markdown projects at 5 Softlines retailers. Improved planning, sell-through, and adjusted gross margin.
Implemented assortment and baseline price projects with incremental financial benefits, improved price perception,

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EMEA Pre-sales Lead

Jan 2013 - Apr 2014 (1 year 3 months)

Launched DemandTec’s Consumer Products business in Europe post IBM´s acquisition. Led all aspects of Pre-sales activity across Europe including:
• Supporting Sales Directors in building pipeline, forming partnerships, prospecting and other market development activities.
• Using DemandTec's diagnostic sales process to establish the prospects'​ critical business issues and understand their processe

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Senior Consultant

Apr 2011 - Jul 2012 (1 year 3 months)

•Managed RSI's largest single account by revenue: HJ Heinz. This represented a revenue of £800K Managed projects to increase revenue, reduce out-of-stocks, improve promotion execution and effectiveness across the top four grocers (Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury and Morrisons).
•Delivered projects to maximize retail operation productivity and foster collaborative relationships between Heinz and the retaile

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Business Consultant

Aug 2009 - Aug 2011 (2 years)

•Solely responsible for servicing Key Global Accounts (Danone Groupe, Nokia Corp. & Vileda) that included over 25 business units spanning four continents.
•Delivered consultancy projects on household care, dairy and consumer electronics categories.
•Transformed consultancy projects into plans and tools that help our clients (leading manufacturers or retailers) reach their targets by increasing com

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

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The University of Sheffield

Bachelor of Arts, Economics

Graduated with honours.

TS

The University of Sheffield

Graduated with Honours, BA

1998 - 2001

Tech stack

Software and tools used professionally

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